On Saturday night the light heavyweight contender stopped Braian Suarez inside one round at Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena. He did the same to Benjamin Gavazi in November and he finished Cameron off in the second round of their April 2025 rematch.

Before the Cameron sequel, Whittaker (11-0-1, 8 KOs) hired former middleweight champion and knockout artist Andy Lee as his trainer, so you'd be forgiven for linking solely their partnership with the Olympic silver medalist's newfound penchant for finishing fights early.

However Whittaker has attached some credit to a chance meeting with boxing legend Terence Crawford, who retired last year after defeated Canelo Alvarez to become a five-division champion.

Crawford (42-0, 31 KOs) was revered as one of the sport's most lethal finishers.

"Funny one actually, when I was in Dubai for an event, I saw Terence Crawford and he said 'trust me bro, you're a great fighter, you've got all the skill but you play with your food too much.'

"I sat back and thought, 'that's true actually, I do play with my food too much' and ever since then I've been knocking them clean out. But that's just me as well, I do like to mess around.

"I can do both, I can hop on one foot, I can spin around, I can look into the crowd but if the shot's there to take it, that's what I like to do now. Tonight, [Suarez] was a good fighter, on paper he was no idiot. But I did what I was supposed to do tonight. We move to America, do what we do over there, and just keep moving on."

Whittaker is now expected to make his U.S. debut on the undercard of Xander Zayas vs. Jaron "Boots" Ennis June 27 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

After that, Whittaker is slated to return for a headline show in Birmingham in November.

In 2027, Whittaker's promoter Eddie Hearn says that his man will be ready for the 175-pound division's biggest and best fighters.